Found a colt 9mm commander today

Roads were icy here in colorado today but needed to run down to the store. also stopped into the local pawn shop just for kicks to see what they might have.
They had a 98% condition manf. date 1970 Colt commander in 9mm. It is the one with the frame marked clw serial number prefix. nice early 4 digit number also. just a great looking 1911. Always wanted one of the 9mm ones with the steel frame.

Walked out with it for $699 total. looks like it might of had a box of rounds threw it and with those brown colt plastic grips it kinda matches my 1970 govt model 45. in nickle.

Funny thing is I sold my glock 23 two weeks ago with the ideal of buying a newer model glock to carry. have been carring my 1941 ppk the last couple of weeks but now I plan on using this as my normal carry pistol. Could not be more happy.

your right on one point I checked and it does have the colt alloy frame its just so nice it looked like steel. but confused on your other statement on this 1970 pistol it is not nickle its blue and starts with clw which I have been led to believe it stands for commander light weight.

now my 1970 commercial govt model 45 is nickle and if the c at the end of the serial means nickle then that would mean my 1954, 1957 and 1963 one's with the c after the serial number must be mistakes as they are all blue? I have a friend with the exact same markings as my commander and its not nickle either.

now I have seen plenty of later colts and they seem to put all the info in the serial number which actually really helps make sure they are not mixed up.

so true with the ones from the last 30 years but the early 1911's it is pretty easy to know what you are buying before 1971 the large C ment commercial on 1911's. you did not have much to confuse folks back then as you either had just a serial number, serial number with things like SM for the service models, LW for the commanders, NM for national match, NMR for gold cup rimmed, then in 1969 to me it starts to get a little more confusing as thats when the clw comes out. I take it to mean commander light weight but why did they change it from just LW? after that year when the series 70 came out a few things make since but some of it just plan did not. I can see why someone with say a mid 70's 1911 in nickle who has say a serial number like SC which to me would mean nickle would think it always ment that but did not untill like 1971.
as far as other colts I never really gave it much thought.